Forum down again this morning

[chem geek]

TFP was down again earlier today though is up now. Errors were site unavailable (503) and database error as fast messages, not the slow timeout type of message from the earlier website down problems (though the database error message was similar to that seen before).

 

[NeedMoreSun]

The forum also shows timezone as GMT -5 yet says it's 10:04 PM, so the time is off. That could also cause some connection issues to SQL or MySQL. Well, other than it's obviously working at the moment unless the database was changed to match. It's not 10:00 PM at GMT -5 though.

 

[jblizzle]

I just reported this as well. Looks like the forum was down for 1-2 hours. And the displayed times appear to be defaulted back to GMT, ignoring our personal settings.

 

[NeedMoreSun]

Oh, yeah, I didn't notice it was ignoring my own settings on top of it. I'm set at GMT -6 and everything displayed is matching what the forum shows for GMT -5 which is also wrong for that time zone. Down on the bottom of the forum: "All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:18 PM."

 

[jblizzle]

That is odd. Mine says "All times are GMT -7. The time now is 8:21 PM" ... which is in fact GMT. So I just thought it was reporting GMT for everyone.

 

[NeedMoreSun]

Yeah, 8:21 would be GMT, but not GMT -7 Time is way off on top of not showing our local times it seems. Surprised it connects to the database at all "if" the server time is actually off and isn't just a vBulletin issue. Feel sorry for those chasing it though!

 

[AimeeH]

And showing threads out of order? Is that also because of the time issue?

 

[jblizzle]

Yeah, it seems like the time stamps are messed up. Then a little while ago it fixed the time stamp which was making the replies appear before the original post. I do not know much about this, but hopefully after a server reset things will get straightened out. Not sure when that is going to happen, unless that is why the forum went down a little while ago again.